Including “Finale 2015”, her remake of her 1980 debut single “Finale”, it turned the Phew story full circle. In 2015 she released her first almost entirely solo-driven CD, aptly titled A New World, on the Japanese label Felicity featuring nine songs backed by herself on electronics and drum machine, with contributions from Deerhoof guitarist John Dieterich, and synthesizer / electronics player Hiroyuki Nagashima. Indeed, since her 2013 conversion to analogue electronics Phew has continued evolving her live solo project around the world. With the 2017–18 international release of her album Voice Hardcore (on her own BeReKet and New York’s Mesh-Key labels) legendary Japanese musician Phew consolidated her binary interests as vocal performer and, latterly, analogue electronics improviser. In 2005, Ana released her solo debut, The Lighthouse-a self-recorded collection of spare, elegant experiments in electronic indie-pop on Chicks on Speed’s label.Īna’s recent appearances with The Raincoats include a 2016 collaboration with Angel Olsen for Rough Trade’s 40th anniversary, as well as a 2017 presentation at The Kitchen, New York of The Raincoats and Friends, a celebration of Jenn Pelly’s book The Raincoats. She wrote music and collaborated with choreographer/dancer Gaby Agis on “Shouting out loud” and “Undine and the Still” performed at Sadlers Wells, Riverside Studios, ICA and Almeida Theatre, London, and she wrote the music for Channel 4 film “Freefall” in 1988.Īna returned to song writing and performing with The Raincoats after Kurt Cobain invited them to tour with Nirvana shortly before his untimely death in 1994, and they released an album “Looking in the Shadows” in 1995 on DGC and Rough Trade. They set a crucial precedent for feminist work within a DIY punk context, marked all the while by Ana’s poetic lyrical style and innovative noise guitar playing.Īfter The Raincoats’ hiatus in 1984, Ana collaborated with The Go-Betweens on their single “Bachelor Kisses” and she formed the band Roseland together with This Heat’s Charles Hayward. The Raincoats have offered creative and spiritual inspiration for several generations of artists, cited as a formative influence by Kurt Cobain, Carrie Brownstein, Bikini Kill, and Sex Pistols’ John Lydon. Across four daring full-length records, The Raincoats helped shape the timeless notion that punk is what you make it to be-an act of raw expression, not any one sound. The album was mixed by Hiroyuki Nagashima.Īna da Silva is a founding member and songwriter of the pioneering post-punk band The Raincoats. There is a feeling of discovery that will be familiar to Raincoats fans-a sense of poetry and inquisitiveness, of intuition and invention, of new languages taking shape. Island’s logic is one of wise minimalism. At times, Island evokes the sinister throb of Phew’s recent Light Sleep album (which in turn recalls Suicide). A gripping mood is set by the shared stoicism and subtle playfulness of these two cult punk icons.Įach song was collectively composed by both Ana and Phew, who exchanged files via email. Ana and Phew contribute pointillist bits of spoken word in each other’s native tongues of Portuguese and Japanese, reflecting on isolation, friendship, and nature. Each cavernous track feels like a conversation, and out of the ominous dark comes a generative hope. A bracing odyssey in industrial noise, Island is full of absorbing textures, tactile beats, and a masterfully dynamic compositional style. Island is the new collaborative album from Ana da Silva (of The Raincoats) and Japanese electronic musician Phew. Ana da Silva & Phew – Island | Special guest : Lucinda ChuaĢ8 November 2018 – doors 8pm – music 8.30pm – £12 adv / £15 door | BUY TICKETS
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